Former England captain Michael Vaughan has called for the Nottinghamshire seamer to be left out given his figures and nagging injury worries.

“If Stuart really does have a dodgy left knee, and we are told he had fluid drained from it last week as well as an MRI scan, then do not play him. Go into Melbourne without him or be brave enough not to pick him for the New Zealand tour if Joe believes he is not bowling well enough,” he wrote in the Daily Telegraph.

“Stuart has not bowled well all year. Taking 25 wickets at nearly 40 is not good enough for Broad, particularly given some of the wickets he has bowled on.

“He has not bowled in Australia to the standard he would have liked so maybe the call is to leave him out for a while.”